NATIONAL SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY ACT OF 2004 (S. 2154) Why this bill is important: This bipartisan bill seeks to fill a gaping hole...
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Police say woman didn’t refuse $500 solicitation for sex with child Simon Read, STAFF WRITER MARTINEZ – Police arrested a Martinez woman this week after she reportedly offered her 4-year-old daughter up for sex on a widely used Internet message board. Martinez police apprehended Shannon Nicole Woods, 22, on Tuesday after officials received...
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Undercover officers will train to pose as kids ERIC FRAZIER Child molesters prowling for victims on the Internet will soon stand a greater chance of running into undercover officers. A new N.C. law, combined with a ramped-up police training program, will bring tougher penalties and higher numbers of undercover officers onto the Internet....
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DOVER PLAINS – A teenager missing for more than six weeks has been found. Maria Accorinti, 16, turned herself in to the Dover Plains barracks of the state police Friday, Investigator Tom Jones said. “She was a runaway, who had been staying with a family in Wingdale,” he said. The family, whom Jones...
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EAST CHICAGO: Girl’s family reports she flew home Sunday BY ELIZABETH EAKEN EAST CHICAGO – Lilia Gonzalez, the East Chicago teen reportedly abducted and taken to Mexico on Nov. 15 by a 19-year-old who wanted to date her, is home in Indiana. Gonzalez, 15, arrived by plane at 12:40 a.m. Sunday at O’Hare...
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By Josh Montez A proposal introduced today on Capitol Hill hopes to protect children from sex offenders by making it harder for the molesters to hide. The Children’s Safety Act will beef up the penalties for sex offenders who don’t notify states of their residence. Congressman Mark Kennedy of Minnesota is one of...
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By Annette Espinoza Denver Post Staff Writer When Denver police Detective Paul Baca looked Heidy Lucero square in the eye in November 2002, he promised he would get her kidnapped 3-year-old son back. Baca kept his word. The boy, Mateo, who is now 7 and prefers to be called Matthew, was kidnapped on...
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The girl was grabbed from her bed but struggled free before the suspect was caught. By Diana Hefley and Krista J. Kapralos Herald Writers EVERETT – A 5-year-old girl escaped the grasp of a stranger who kidnapped her from her bed Monday morning, Snohomish County sheriff’s officials said. The suspected abductor, a 20-year-old...
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By Barney Lerten Bend.com Posted: Thursday, January 27, 2005 2:58 PM Reference Code: AR-20825 ======================== Mother ‘very glad’ to hear son, now 17, is Ok. January 27 – A teen-ager who ran away from a northeast Bend home about 2 1/2 years ago, at age 14, and was listed on a national missing-children...
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